Minor earthquake: M3.41 quake has struck near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.41 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 54 km (34 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/01/21 / 2021-01-18 23:10:52 / January 18, 2021 @ 11:10 pm. Event id: pr2021018013. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2021018013. The temblor was detected at 23:10:52 / 11:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -64.803 West, latitude 18.9318 North, depth = 54 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 66 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.41 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.803° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9318° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	54 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	66 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-01-18 23:10:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-18 23:32:50	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	179	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	pr	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	8	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.1217	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	328	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	pr2021018013	Id of event.
Event Code	2021018013	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2021018013,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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